The new MacBook Pro 13 is in a weird spot, trapped with a body that now feels dated compared to the sleeker MacBook Pro 14, and even the cheaper MacBook Air. The MacBook Pro 13 feels dead on arrival. Its battery life is leagues ahead of the M1 Pro MacBook Pro 14’s 10 hours, and the only laptop that’s managed to beat the M2 MacBook Pro 13 is the M1 Max MacBook Pro 16, which lasted a revolutionary 22 hours and 32 minutes. You could fly across the Pacific Ocean and you’d still have a workday’s worth of battery left. That’s five hours longer than the 2020 M1 MacBook Pro 13, which already had impressive battery life.

When we ran our battery test, the M2 processor squeezed 19 hours out of its battery before the laptop powered down. To test battery life, we set the laptop’s display to 200 nits of brightness and rotate through dozens of web pages on Google Chrome, which gives us a good idea of how long the laptop will last for productivity usage. There’s no denying that Apple MacBooks consistently rank among the best when it comes to battery life. The body comes with two Thunderbolt ports and a headphone jack. More cores still mean more power in the Apple lineup. While the M2’s cores are undeniably faster than the M1’s cores, it does not make up for the difference in multi-core performance between the 8-core M2 and the 10-core M1 Pro. Graphics performance is similar to the core performance-the M2 is slightly faster than the M1, but it’s slower than the M1 Pro. The M2 MacBook Pro 13 is well suited for smaller video projects and heavier productivity tasks, although it will be slower than the M1 Pro MacBook Pro 14. Considering the MacBook Pro 13 M2 is almost a thousand dollars cheaper, that’s impressively close. It took four minutes and 32 seconds to render a model of a car, which is 40 seconds faster than the M1 and 15 seconds slower than the M1 Pro. Rendering images in Blender using the M2 processor is a smooth affair. However, the M2’s individual cores are seven percent faster than both M1 processors’ cores according to our Geekbench 5 benchmarks. Across several multi-core benchmarks, the M2 sees anywhere between 9-20% percent performance increases over the M1, and it sits about 10% below the M1 Pro. Among Apple’s lineup, it sits squarely between the M1 and the M1 Pro for performance.

The M2 processor is a bump up from the M1, but it sits beneath the M1 Pro.Ĭompared to the M1 processor in the 2020 MacBook Pro 13, the M2 processor in this year’s model is faster and more efficient.

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